Music -- Semiotics

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Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behaviour in the light of research from a number of sou…

"This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a detailed description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning. It draws on a wealth of examples from radio (disk jocke…

Drawing on a wide range of phonetic, linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic and musicological sources, this book concentrates on the communicative theory of sound.

This text explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning.